If you can’t hear me mumbling in my megaphone, here’s what I’m saying….

Living Green Magazine recently published a thoughtful, concise, yet comprehensive look at the Big 4 GOP presidential contenders and their recent comments about climate change. (Click here to read.)

This week, they all seem to be stepping in piles of organic doo-doo.

For example, a few days ago, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich claimed that the Chevy Volt is an “Obama car” because “you can’t put a gun rack in a Volt.” After that, the Huffington Post had a headline that read “GM Shoots Back at Newt Gingrich.”

HuffPost reported that GM’s head of communications, Selim Bingol, blogged for the company that you actually can put a gun rack in a Chevy Volt. “But the real question is, ‘Why would you?’” Yes, indeed, Mr. Gingrich, why would you need a gun rack when you can easily carry a concealed weapon in any vehicle. (In a totally semi-related note, a reported asked Callista Gingrich what she was giving up for Lent. When she said her opinion, Newt looked at her in his classic condescending fashion and blurted, “That doesn’t count.” Pundits assume he meant that giving up something for Lent only counts if you value it.)

The HuffPost interviewed John McDole, a Republican from Atlanta who shot a YouTube video of the gun rack he built in the back of his Volt. McDole is quoted as saying “Most people are saying it’s Obama’s car, but it came up when Bush was president.” To see the full story and John’s video, click here.

While Newt played around with guns, Rick Santorum worked God into his environmental anti-message last week by saying that President Barack Obama has a theological worldview that “elevates the Earth above man,” and that makes Obama one of those radical environmentalists.

On the CBS News program “Face the Nation,” faith-based Santorum explained what was wrong with a fact-based view of climate change. “I just said that when you have a world view that elevates the Earth above man and says that, you know, we can’t take those resources because we’re going to harm the Earth by things that frankly are just not scientifically proven — for example, that politicization of the whole global-warming debate — I mean, this is just all an attempt to centralize power and to give more power to the government.” (Note that Democratic government power is different from the government power the Republicans in state legislatures want over women’s reproductive rights.)

Santorum apparently believes that Genesis 1:28 (God gave Adam and Eve dominion in the earth) gives earthlings the right to dominate the planet, when most Christian theologians believe the statement is God’s message that we should be good stewards by nurturing and caring for the planet.

Long-time environmental reporter Edward Flattau recently wrote that Santorum is unfit to be President because of his extreme environmental views. “As glaciers recede, heat waves intensify and the fate of succeeding generations grows more at risk, an oblivious Santorum blithely maintains that human-induced global warming is a fictitious concoction of the international scientific community.”

Another GOP hopeful, Congressman Ron Paul, claimed at a rally this week in North Dakota that simply enforcing private property rights is all it takes to protect people from pollution. No need for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The Washington Post quotes him as saying, “The more socialized a system is, the worse the property is, and the worse the environment is. We should never be bashful about saying we believe in property rights … and we don’t have to give one inch and say that we’re careless with the environment, because you don’t have a right to pollute your neighbor’s property.”

I wish he would explain how that would work with BP’s Gulf Oil Spill.

On the other hand, Ron Paul criticized the U.S. ban on growing hemp—the hardworking cousin to the laid back marijuana plant—which has been grown since George Washington as a cash crop sold to make textiles and rope.

I’ve been seeing and hearing this news the whole day and this issue is getting to my nerves. Honestly, this is a very silly issue, no significance at all. So what if the Volt cannot carry a gun rack, is it really necessary? Unless you’re in a warzone, I believe you need to carry bunch of guns. I can’t believe that this issue needs to be brought out publicly.